Renuka Lakkaraju

• Technology executive leading Fidelity Brokerage’s strategic Alternative Investments and Crypto initiatives, focused on growth, resiliency, and scaling innovative business models.
• Established and scaled a new engineering organization, recruiting product‑driven technical leaders and embedding operating discipline to speed execution across complex Alts and Crypto program.
• Partnered with Product Strategy & Delivery to shape and govern multi‑year roadmaps across solution design, modernization, capability modeling, and engineering standards, resolving enterprise‑wide dependencies and steering through regulatory, risk, and operational complexity.
• Drove cross‑functional collaboration across Brokerage, Wealth, Asset Management, Operations Services, Alts Investor Relations, and Technology to streamline the Alts subscription lifecycle, reduce manual processes, and scale support for wealth and brokerage clients.
• Delivered a modern Self‑Directed Alternatives platform, launching scalable entitlement, research, and monitoring capabilities that expanded access to 100K+ Qualified Purchasers through automated, cloud‑based wealth checks and integrated Alts fund data with enterprise market data and funds platforms
• Provided a strategic, data‑driven competitive perspective on Alternative Investments and Digital Assets informed by deep market analysis
• Delivered new feature enhancements including Buy More, Auto Capital Call, and advanced a Secondary Liquidity Marketplace toward launch.
• In parallel stood up new multi-channel (Web, Mobile iOS/Android) engineering team to support Fidelity Crypto experiences (Trade, Research Monitor, Payments and TOA) and product lunches
• Partnered deeply with Product Strategy & Delivery, Finance , HR to secure funding
• Influenced firm wide architecture decisions on Alts tokenization strategy in partnership with product, tech across the enterprise.
• Set the cross‑enterprise architecture and delivery strategy for next‑generation Peer-Peer payments, partnering with Brokerage, Digital Assets product and technology leaders to support multi‑account Brokerage and Crypto P2P Payments.
• Introduced a phased decoupling of Crypto and Brokerage P2P platforms to manage risk and ensure delivery continuity

Selective Product Launches

• Private Alts product launches, Secondary Liquidity Marketplace
• Fidelity Crypto TOA General Availability, Peer-Peer MVP1,Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD) stable coin launch

• Founded and lead Fidelity Personal Investments (PI) Digital Asset COE team specialized technologists focused on forward‑looking innovation, rapid experimentation, and strategic advantage across blockchain‑enabled product offerings
• Established operating model grounded in strong partnership with PI Digital Assets Product & Strategy , UXD/UXR enabling rapid testing, accelerated learning cycles, prototyping, and concept development with a clear path to executive decision‑making
• Led architecture and capability modeling for the PI Digital Assets domain aligned to a multi‑year strategic roadmap, ensuring scalability, regulatory readiness, and technology coherence.

Selective accomplishments

• Self‑Custody Wallet architecture, delivering MVP proofs of concept and reference implementations
• Fidelity Crypto IRA technical design, enabling compliant access to digital assets

• Led Architecture & Strategy across Brokerage digital channels, Digital Assets, and Digital Advice & Planning, shaping platform direction and long‑term technology vision
• Established a global architectural footprint across the US, China, and India, enabling follow‑the‑sun delivery and consistent architectural standards
• Built and retained a high‑performing architecture organization, fostering a culture of trust, learning, collaboration, innovation, and technical excellence
• Directed Architecture & Strategy for experience platforms spanning web, mobile, and desktop, ensuring cohesive, scalable, and modern client experiences
• Scaled architectural practices by mentoring engineers and partnering with engineering leaders to define operating models and elevate engineering maturity
• Partnered closely with product leadership to prioritize initiatives, shape roadmaps, and translate business strategy into actionable technical designs
• Spearheaded digital transformation initiatives across cloud, data, API platforms, and personalization, driving modernization and enterprise‑wide capability uplift

Selective accomplishments

• Fidelity Crypto MVP1 launch
• Fidelity.com, mobile and Active Trader(ATP) desktop modernization
• Modernization and decommission of OLTX. Modernized 200+ feature and decommissioned 15 monolith apps 5 webservers .
• Accelerate cloud and platform strategy execution of Fidelity digital channels by uplifting the digital experience and technology stack to build highly available, resilient applications
• Accelerated Firm Foundation initiative Inquiry Off Mainframe(Accounts, Positions, Balances, Transactions), Trade Flow off Mainframe by adopting modernized business capabilities

Selective Product Launches

• Fidelity Crypto , Basket Portfolios ,Trader+ Web MVP1 , Fidelity Go-Robo Advisor, Fidelity Teen/Spire Mobile app launch

• Led modernization of retail trading platform from monolith to microservices architecture.
• Released 40 microservices and 14 applications, migrating 82% of daily volume off legacy systems.
• New platform processed 1 million transactions per day, enhancing operational capacity.
• Managed cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery of complex projects.
• Developed standards and domain models, along with API Swagger documentation.
• Coached software engineers and onboarded solution architects to foster team growth.

Client: Fidelity Investment

• Technology leader for multiple Fidelity.com projects
• Led and oversaw software development lifecycles, providing technical leadership for 100+ developers across global locations (US, India, China).
• Design for high performance, low latency and scalability to ensure that the platform can handle high traffic during market open/close and market volatility period
• Collaborated closely with business partners, systems analysts, UXD, Engineering and QA teams across the enterprise to align functionality with technology capabilities

Selected Accomplishments

• fidelity.com web 2.0 responsive web design of Accounts & Trading -Top 25 high traffic pages with millions of interactions
• Platform APIs modernization- Monolith to Micro-service architecture for Business capacity APIs Customer Accounts, Positions, Trading (Equity, Options, Mutual Fund, Fixed Income)
• Implemented distributed caching for fidelity.com high volume pages to improve, response time and resiliency during market open/close and market volatility, cost reduction

Selective Product Launches

• Fidelity Cash management ,Fully Paid Lending, Fidelity and I-Shares ETFs Trading, International Trading, Multi-Leg Options Trading, Real-time balances & costbasis,Tax-Loss Harvesting, Annuity Trading, Stock Plan Services

Designed and developed risk service for portfolio construction tool v1.0 to access risk analytics from Barra Total Risk System.